SILCOTT

Kindly transcribed and submitted by Leslie Waidler

The Intelligencer

Friday, August 15, 2003

ETHEL MAE SILCOTT

ETHEL MAE (WILLIAMS) SILCOTT of Warminster passed away Thursday, Aug. 14, 2003, at Warminster Hospital. She was 81.

She was the beloved wife of the late LOUIS SILCOTT.

Born in Palmerton, Pa., she was the daughter of the late HARRY JAMES and ANN MEADE JONES WILLIAMS.

Mrs. Silcott worked for Reading Railroad for 29 years as a secretary for the engineering department before retiring.

She belonged to St. Anne's Episcopal Church and their Needle Point Guild. She also was the secretary for the Reading Retired Veteran Employee Association.

Mrs. Silcott is survived by her children, HERMAN C. HENGEVELD of Warminster, CECIL B. HENGEVELD of Hummelstown, Pa., and LINDA FARNSWORTH of Hatboro; and her stepchildren, LOUIS SILCOTT JR. of Hatfield and THELMA LAFFERTY of Philadelphia. Also surviving are 17 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, and her sister, GWENDOLYN TEGWEDD OLMES of Jacksonville, Fla. She was preceded in death by her brothers, HARRY JAMES, BENJAMIN CECIL and RUSSELL LEROY WILLIAMS.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend her Requiem Eucharist at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 19, in St. Anne's Episcopal Church, Old Welsh and York roads, Abington, PA 19001, where friends will be received after 10 a.m. until the time of the service. Interment will be held at Whitemarsh Memorial Park.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests remembrances be made in Mrs. Silcott's memory to St. Anne's Episcopal Church at the above address.

Decker Funeral Home, Warminster

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